Sorry, everyone. I think you'll do better with BILBY4's recipe. From the sparse info on the VEGG package, it looks like it's simply intended as an egg yolk substitute for cooking other dishes. The package contains a Vegg French Toast Recipe, and general instructions that tell you to blend (NOT hand-mix) the contents with 4 cups of water for other, undisclosed, uses. That's it. No other guidance. There is a recipe site I haven't checked out: www.thevegg.com but I think I'll just stick to chia seeds and ground flax seeds for my egg substitutes.

I did try the garbanzo bean flour, plain unsweetened almond milk, & black salt (Hawaiian, Shiva!!) that Bilby4 recommended. I didn't get too creative because I wasn't sure about proportions or anything. So I steamed some broccoli and added just that. If I'd cooked some onions & garlic too, that would've been better. It reminded me of a veg pancake, even after I'd scrambled it. I liked the taste & will try it again - and put more effort into it, now that I know I like the taste.

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Some people think the “plant-based whole foods diet” is extreme. Half a million a year will have their chests opened up and a vein taken from their leg and sewn onto their coronary artery. Some people would call that extreme. - Dr. Caldwell B. Esselstyn, “Forks Over Knives”

I've seen pictures of the vegg in vegnews magazine and such. It looks pretty legit. I want to try it maybe when I have the money, although I generally don't really like the idea of mimicking real non vegan foods a lot. I don't miss eggs that much but it might be fun to try.

I ordered the Vegg & the black salt, so by next weekend I may have multiple egg replacements! I'll keep y'all posted...

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Some people think the “plant-based whole foods diet” is extreme. Half a million a year will have their chests opened up and a vein taken from their leg and sewn onto their coronary artery. Some people would call that extreme. - Dr. Caldwell B. Esselstyn, “Forks Over Knives”

"I used to like curried egg and lettuce sandwiches. Best substitute I have found for that is steamed cauliflower mashed with a little rice milk and the spices of course."

Again, an egg substitute I had never heard of or thought of doing! Cauliflower! Who knew! Thanks for the idea, Alan! (I'm so glad you don't charge for these suggestions! I would owe ya some dough lately!)

Speaking of Australia, it's funny how we think of places people live. When we hear Australia, what comes to mind immediately with many American's is the movie "Crocodile Dundee"...which "may" have been our first real exposure to an Aussie accent! (And I hear many Australian's have never heard of the movie--not sure if that's true or not!)

But for me what springs to mind is "Sir Arthur Connan Doyles The Lost World"--a fun action/adventure TV series that came on a few years ago that was filmed in such a lush, jungle looking area, which I learned was actually Queensland, Australia. Had no idea previous to that that Australia had tropical areas--we American's thought it was all like on "Crocodile Dundee"---desert! LOL! (Just call it American ignorance!)

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I used to like curried egg and lettuce sandwiches. Best substitute I have found for that is steamed cauliflower mashed with a little rice milk and the spices of course.

I don't do much baking so I'm not all that fussed about the egg replacers that are a mysterious cocktail of this and that. Pretty sure Vegg would be hard to find in Australia, and expensive if we can get it at all.

But I read some more on it, and it sounds like "maybe" you still have to have tofu to make it work--like it has to be mixed with tofu to form the eggs. But I'm not sure that's what it meant. Will have to do some more research on it.

If it turns out to just be a tofu "additive", then that would still leave open the chance to get rich--to be the first person to discover a vegan egg replacement that is just like eggs! (Sorry...that's been a dream of mine! I've tried all sorts of ways to create eggless eggs and have failed everytime! The vegan who does discover this will be "building a better mouse trap" and will get rich! Cause I know I'm not the only vegan who dearly misses his eggs! Ha! Yeah, there's scrambled tofu, but true egg lovers know it's just not quite the same. But maybe with Vegg added to it, it might be great!)

I will probably buy the Vegg product, too. Will be eager to see what it does.

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Alginic acid, also called algin or alginate, is an anionic polysaccharide distributed widely in the cell walls of brown algae, where through binding with water it forms a viscous gum.

Viscous gum - Yum!

I think I'll still try it.

K8

Some people think the “plant-based whole foods diet” is extreme. Half a million a year will have their chests opened up and a vein taken from their leg and sewn onto their coronary artery. Some people would call that extreme. - Dr. Caldwell B. Esselstyn, “Forks Over Knives”

K8, I may be owing you a big one on this, if the Vegan Egg yolk is a product we all like!!! I say that because the one food I've missed the most as a vegan is eggs!!! I've never found a truly suitable vegan replacement for them--so if this product is good, then I will be a happy camper!!!

But the ingredients list kinda throws me!!! How can it be mostly just made from nutritional yeast? It's not thick, or egg-like. I wonder how they did that? Well, ya know I'm gonna have to buy some to find out! LOL!!! Thanks for informing us!

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Since that's what started this topic, I thought it was pretty on-target.

Edited by: ASPIRINGVEGAN at: 5/26/2013 (08:46)

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Some people think the “plant-based whole foods diet” is extreme. Half a million a year will have their chests opened up and a vein taken from their leg and sewn onto their coronary artery. Some people would call that extreme. - Dr. Caldwell B. Esselstyn, “Forks Over Knives”

Some people think the “plant-based whole foods diet” is extreme. Half a million a year will have their chests opened up and a vein taken from their leg and sewn onto their coronary artery. Some people would call that extreme. - Dr. Caldwell B. Esselstyn, “Forks Over Knives”

Some people think the “plant-based whole foods diet” is extreme. Half a million a year will have their chests opened up and a vein taken from their leg and sewn onto their coronary artery. Some people would call that extreme. - Dr. Caldwell B. Esselstyn, “Forks Over Knives”

Thanks, Sarlia. I have recipes by other members of the group that I saved over the years, but I used to not put the person's name to them and have since forgot who gave me the recipe, so that's why some of you folks didn't get a recipe named after you (yet!) Ha!

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I've heard good things before about Black Salt for giving scrambled tofu (and now chickpea flour!) that "eggy" taste. But man, that stuff is impossible to find in my neck of the woods--even at our Whole Foods. And the only specialty stores locally are Mexican.

But I can order some on-line. I found some at Amazon (which anymore has just about anything one can think of!)

Alan--Glad you mentioned that the veggies might need to be cooked beforehand for the omelet if one like's them nice and soft (I would). Very eager to try it!

K8--I also was not making the connection that Garbanzo flour and Chickpea flour were one and the same! LOL! I have Garbanzo flour, but I had been thinking, "Gee...if only I had some chickpea flour, I could make this recipe!" LOL!!!

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Definitely going to try that! And having searched high & low for chickpea flour before, I'm glad to know it's called besan. I ended up grinding my own chickpeas - nearly killed my food processor. Then of course I found garbanzo bean flour pretty easily and felt like a total idiot! LOL!

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Some people think the “plant-based whole foods diet” is extreme. Half a million a year will have their chests opened up and a vein taken from their leg and sewn onto their coronary artery. Some people would call that extreme. - Dr. Caldwell B. Esselstyn, “Forks Over Knives”

In the omelette the type of milk doesn't matter, I'd even suggest plain water if you only have the kind of plant milks that have a sweet finish to them. As y'all probably know chick pea flour is also sold under the name 'besan' and can be found in oriental groceries as well as better/bigger whole foods type places. Black salt is very sulfury which is what gives the egg-kick to the omelette. If you are missing eggness then it'll be a good buy as it could be a useful flavour in quite a few things. This kind of omelette cooks quickly so only put vegetables in it that you are happy eating rawish, or pre-cook them before adding. Alan

A good substitute in baked goods is 1 tablespoon of flaxseed meal mixed with 3 tablespoons of water. Let it sit for about 15 min and you're good to go. I've had good success using this in bread and muffins.

Alan - thanks for the tip on chickpea flour and soy milk. I'll have to give that a try.

Ok. Don't think you can do anything like a fried or poached egg. Tofu scrambles are pretty well known and there are lots of recipes around. My personal omelette favourite is made with chick pea flour, soy milk and a pinch of black salt. Mix these ingredients until they are well combined but still runny. Cook in a saucepan over medium heat, adding your preferred vegetables. The mixture will thicken to omelette-like consistency and has plenty of body and flavour. best, Alan

So going vegan has been pretty smooth sailing for me, except for one thing: eggs. It's the weirdest thing - I never much liked eggs before, but since I cut out all the other animal derived products, my egg cravings have increased to incredibly high levels! Do any of you have suggestions for a natural substitute for eggs? I cannot do fake eggs, as my body cannot properly digest processed products (long, icky story).

Any help is much appreciated!

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